Show STE WASHINGTON J LETTER n SEVERE IN 1 rAnTS OF OP U. U 8 S. By Charles 10 1 Stewart NEt NEA E. Service Writer WASHINGTON Sept 19 n-Dut n 1 Bu Bu Bufor Bufor for the fact that transportation facilities are arc ample In the Iho United States State a considerable part of th the south would be on the eve ot of 51 genuine enuine a a. famine as ever gripped China according 10 lo arrivals lr In Washington from the lie drough drought belt described as liS extending roughly from the southern southe-rn Vir Virginia ginia and North and South Caro Carolina lina its con through most 01 of Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and t Into Texas Texal That It has hns been heen a 0 dry seasor In this region Is no news but II Ir reliable eyewitnesses eyewitnesses' o e stories art are artto to 10 bA bOlt believed belle the situations situation's real seriousness Is III only just jut beginning to lo be revealed Not only have hats crops suffered red heavily but In some sections It U it declared that good trees are arc dying to such s a 0 depth is the thi earth completely dried out Small lakes and numerous fair fair- fairly ly hy y large rg streams have havo disappeared so SQ completely that their beds are deep In dust dUlt and buzzards are eating dead fish fl h from them References are arc made to 10 Texas Tex s ranchmen ranch men who are shooting their live Ive stock too emaciated to sell and doomed otherwise to a slower shower death from front lack of food t and wa wa- ter Many Georgia farmers farmen are aro feed feed- feedIng feeding I Ing ragweed to their swine and cutting small bushes for tor their other stock Towns are mentioned which are bringing In their water supplies in tank cars The situation has one pense pence Tho boll weevil cant can't stand such tuch dry weather seather much bettor better than the cotton can The bon bolt weevil 11 distinctly Is III a a. wet Without With lIh out tut moisture he dl dies diu s. s That's what hes he's been doing lately at a a. prodigious ml nile ralo a. a Indications Indi are that next year holl hell be Lie scarce Later on he may Increase and nn 1 multiply again but his absence I even iven for a a. single season will be a blessing It will mean given riven an J adequate rainfall a good cotton crop at any an rate The southeastern rn slates states will the exception of ot Florida are suf sur fering appreciably also front from th thrush thrush rush to the latter state stat In Georgia particularly juts jus across the state slate line the southward south louth- southward ward movement Is spoken ot or a as having hOl assumed almost the pro 1 proportions proportions portions of ot a gold stampede The T Georgians G with less Ite f In n the e Florida boom b than n thi th have expect 10 lo see the thi tide turn lurn and sweep back in dui due course It shows no signs of doing si sias ao sias as yet et however and In the mean moan meantime time Its It effect on Georgia busl bud budness ness Is the reverse of ot to residents there ther The proposal to create creale a fedOra federal government department of Education duea lion tion with a 0 cabinet member at Its Hi head will be b pushed vigorous at tho the next session se of ot congress but It ft wilt will meet with energetic opposition too Opponents of the plan take lh the thu position that education e of all things Is the one particular thing thins be bo central centralized which ought ou ht not to of education education Even F. if a secretary tion should hould start out without much h ower to t r Interfere ter e In I local school affairs attain they predict the tho tendency would b be for him to roach reach constantly for Cor more authority author author- ity It until ultimately he haul hat tho the entire national school system un tin- under der ler his departments department's autocratic control Centralized educational direction lion tion of ot the tho old German type tYle may maybe maybe maybe be efficient and nd scientific the de- de ts concede but they say they dont don't Ilk like tho the results result It gave ga In lit Germany at any an rate They argue that communities know what they Ih y want In iii tho the we wu of Sr schools school and anI will support them loyally It i permitted pe to run them In n their own way otherwise they'll regard them with and however good theoretically they the in the theace wont ont function effectively ely face ic ace of 0 loci local disapproval al |